From south of Dijon up to Maranges, the 50 km hillsides region with extremely variable composition of clay-limestone soil, forms the base of the Unesco’s heritage site of the Climats, the territory of Burgundy, which contains the Côte de Nuits and the Côte de Beaune areas.
According to Unesco, ‘Living witness of a specific natural environment which has been valorised by a stable human community, the Burgundy Climats’ authenticity is reflected in the permanence and liveliness of the millennial vine- and wine culture vocation. The cadastral recording of the vineyard parcels attests to their size, location and ownership, reflecting in a credible manner the complex process of formation of the Climats and the persistence of traditions and ancestral techniques, and farming land management. The continuity of the land use and parcelling is also expressed in the landscape features which articulate the Climats (e.g., stone walls, hedgerows, meurgers, paths, enclosures, etc.) and demonstrate their distinction and specificity….’.
The vineyards of the Burgundy Climats are the birthplace and living archetype of terroir vineyards the particularity of which is closely associated with the gustatory quality of their production with the parcel from which it originates. In Burgundy, since the High Middle Ages, under the impetus of Benedictine and Cistercian monastic orders and the Valois Dukes of Burgundy, the identification of wine with where it was produced has been pushed to the highest degree, giving rise to an exceptional system of land parcels. The many vintages resulting from this mosaic, issued from two unique varieties (Pinot Noir and Chardonnay), illustrate the extreme diversity.
Name Climate has its root in Kali-MataSri Manta(a mountain); the name is associated with the offering of ‘wine’ from the time immemorial; terroir homonymous to taru(means ‘tree’), tarai(‘a title’, and also it refers to a grassy-land), and to taila means a ‘dry highland’).
Major Communities of the region can be seen through their ancient identity:
Autun—-Atuma/Atanu/King Uttanapada;
Auxerre—Akshya/Ikshu or ‘region of sugar cane’;
Beaune—-Varana/Baruna/Bhauini means ‘sister’ whose land was neighbolrly to Ikshu region;
Chalon-sur-Saone—Kolhna/Sur and Sayana region
Dijon—Di-jon means the ‘Zion-people’ of Di region/ or the river Niranjana;
Le Creusot—Krousta/Crousta, name of a region, name of a clan-name, and also God;
Macon—Markana/Sage Markandeya/Marcion of the Bible
Mo Montceau-les-Mines—Mother Matanga
Nevers—Nava region/Navi-sthala, the Middle Country
Premery—Bam/Bamara refers to s women’s settlement near ancient Jerusalem/Pramila/may be the region of Brahma;
Sens—Senani, a shepherd tribe/ a title
Côte de Nuits—-Naite
Cistercian—Follower of Krousta
Valois— Varahi/Vellur/Bhurs/Bhors/Bhara-dvaj people
Pinot Noir—Bainetaya settlement/ the bird country
Clos —-Kusa country
de Vougeot—Bhagavata people
Ducal Palace—Duggal /or Orkal
Scholars see ‘Burgundy’ as referred to a number of social entities including seat of power of royal houses, kingdoms and duchies covering a vast geographical area; this Burgundy is synonymous with Burg-Andy /or with Burg-Undy; the former means ‘the settlements of the Andreas or the Andhakas of Indian puranas. Androcles(Androclus) of both Homer’s Iliad and Aesop’s Fables. This makes the historical sense of the ancient Andhakas who migrated to different parts of the ‘unknown world’ of Ptolemy and settled with different names. In Andaman Nicobar Islands the inhabitants are called Sentinelese(also Santalas) which is as same as the Sens of the Burgundy; Nicobar marks the exact Nuits which is as same as Naites of Pali literature. There is no either historical or geographical differences between the Andhkas and the people of Andhra or the Andros/Andr/Androgeos etc. of the Greeks to whom Chinese pilgrim Hiouen Tsiang called An-tu-lo which is again the same as Yen-to-man of the book Zhu Fan Zhi by Zhao Rugua.
If Burgundy becomes Burg-Undy, then it shows its ancient root in the Uddyan or the country of Uden means ‘garden’.
Cote or Kota country is the base area from which this group of migrants were anciently connected with. According to Indian puranic sources, Kosala was the country of the Andhakas and Kota country was also a part of the Kosala kingdom.
Women’s Country was the seat of worship of Mother Kali; countries like Cote-d’Or, Saone-et-Loire, Yonne and Nievre were closely knitted with this Kota or Mt Caucasus region. Yonne marks the country of the ancient Greeks which were as same as the Anus or the Ons/Ains.
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